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The rule of the judges over Israel. Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy. Southey.

A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.

A broad-leafed fossil alga.

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.

Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment (Med.), a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.

A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

gious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

Lightness; nimbleness [Archaic] Shak.

A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.

A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

A lithotriptor.

A lithotriptist.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

xiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

See Logarithmic.

Logarithmically.

Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms. Logarithmic curve (Math.), a curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coördinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa. -- Logarithmic spiral, a spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equa…

By the use of logarithms.